Autograph letter from Lady Caroline Lamb, Melbourne House, to Edmund Kean [manuscript], 18th or 19th century Tuesday evening.

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Autograph letter from Lady Caroline Lamb, Melbourne House, to Edmund Kean [manuscript], 18th or 19th century Tuesday evening.

Letter asking Kean's reasons for altering his manner of delivering certain passages in Othello which she had considered as perfect, and applying to Kean the lines in the Rosciad on Garrick.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7328942

Folger Shakespeare Library

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